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The Arcade Random Thoughts Thread
- Thread starter Leftwich
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calgaryballer
Tiote!
My computer is still good enough to run FEAR at great settings. Crysis 2 in all it's glory...thats going to require some upgrades
Yah I got Crysis 2 and BF3 on the ol watch list. I want to start getting back into PC gaming after taking the last couple years off thanks to current comp being a piece of shit and not having the time to take care of it like I used to.
It's kinda odd because I've been out of the retail side of computers now for almost 2 years and I felt completely lost yestarday trying to price out things. I see the 2nd generation i7's are out but the motherboards arn't fully available everywhere yet. I have no clue about the difference between chipsets and everything anymore.
As for your list I see you have BC2 there. If your looking to pound out some games that will take around 10-15 hours to beat then BC2 and the FEARS will be a good start. Super meat boy can go die in a fire. It honestly enrages me and I'll never play it again.
Yah.
Uhh no. They don't build them like consoles where they have to dumb everything down.
And high powered computer? The thing is only going to cost me maybe 1200 bucks lol.
I know they only cost like 1000-1500 (I was saying a year 2012 CPU). I dont know about the whole upgrading thing every fucking 2 years or whatever just seems fishy to me. I mean Nvidia coming out with new cards every year. People running dual cards ect ect. Seems like overkill.
I dont trust it. I mean if you built the computer for $1200 in March of 2011 when would you need to upgrade again in your opinion?
March 2015...
The current comp I am on now is from March 2007, the one before that was a March 2003. The video card in this machine is my second one but it was replaced for free after I killed the first one thanks to not taking care of it.
I try and get 4 years out of my PC. This current one has only had a power supply replaced in it and I had a hard drive die out on me a couple years ago but thats about it.
I spent I think $1400 on this 4 years ago and have only had to put in maybe $150 into it over that time. The whole myth about having to stay upgrade all the time and all that bs still makes me laugh.
Twigg4075
Kindergarten Cop
"myth" or not, you spent $1400 to upgrade four years ago and now you're looking to spend another $1200? So that's $2600 in what would normally be ONE console life cycle?!? That's fucking insane. And you wonder why I play on a console? You could buy four 360's, four PS3's and a Wii for that.
Am I missing something?
lol @ it being insane. First off I'm not upgrading. I'm buying a whole new tower. This old tower will get demoted to another job that another machine used to it (well to be honest that machine died last year and this one machine does everything now)
Second of all its a fucking computer not a gaming console. I use it for maybe 20% gaming while the rest of it is work and pron. I do love how people are gasping at a $1400 computer. You're the same dicks that probably whine when your $400 piece of shit dell "gets slow". Let me guess you all drive Kia's or some other shit car because buying anything else would just be insane. I know jms drives an audi. Whats the point of that your just driving at the same speed as everyone else right?
Also let me know how much your last TV cost? You're kinda forgetting about that part of the equation. Kinda funny to see people like twigg and jms balk at me for spending a grand and a half on something when jms buys useless shit like ipads and twigg has every console (and every game I think) and god knows how much his home theater equipment cost when all I have is a 360 I won for free and a 3 year old 32" tv and thats it.
Different strokes for different folks people.
I'll never understand the primarily console gamer reaction to guys that do the majority of their gaming on PCs talking about PCs. It seems like every time everywhere, someone has to comment about the absurd price, and then compare it to consoles when it has been and always will be apples and oranges. 4 years ago I got a new VAIO laptop so I could play a lot of games that my old comp couldn't handle. I spent 1400 on it after everything. Now, I used it to play games that I couldn't, but I also used it for like 47,000 other things.
I'm just always confused as to why $2600 spent on a PC would, in any world, be a bad deal in comparison to buying a 360 or PS3.
I'm just always confused as to why $2600 spent on a PC would, in any world, be a bad deal in comparison to buying a 360 or PS3.
yes...correct. I wasn't trying to make it a discussion on how we spend our money....that's totally personal and relative. $100 to me could mean something totally different to someone else.
You answered my question earlier as every 4-5 years and upgrade is needed if you want to play the top games on the highest settings I believe. Which is not terrible. I just get confused on the companies constantly spewing out new graphics every year and the $300 and $400 price tags on them....seems a bit crazy. I used to game on PC a little in college and got a bad taste. Bad installs, crashing, slow down...ect. I spent alot of time reinstalling cleaning computer to make sure it stay in good shape. Seemed like more work then fun.
Well IMO b/c the damn tech changes so fast. I mean in 2000 -01 it was extra money to get 512MB of ram and a 60 GB HD. Now Desktops at best buy come with 8GBs of RAM and you can get a portable HD the size of a Credit Card with 1 TB of storage.....WTF.
The main reason companies like ATI and Nvidia push out better cards is simply because the competition is huge. You have to remember once a chipmaker like nvidia releases its chip 3rd party companies like EVGA, XFX ect ect all make their own revisions of the cards and they are the ones doing all the different models and such. So in it you have competition between chip makers, competition between the 3rd party companies who actually put the cards together and competition between all the resellers. What you get is an awesome market where technology continues to grow at an amazing pace.
Realistically if you wanted to play a game at high settings for everything you'd need to spend a butt load on the machine but with PC gaming you can get away from that by turning different settings down or off. What you get is a gaming expierence which graphically is usually better then consoles. Gameplay wise is always in the eye of the beholder though. I just choose to play the role of a smart pc gamer and pick and choose when and what I upgrade. The days of me buying a new video card every year are gone mainly because I don't have the money to do so but really because its not needed much anymore.
calgaryballer
Tiote!
My 2007 computer still plays everything I want to at a decent-good level. Half the stuff I listed on the previous page is a couple years old and will look fine.
PC Gamers are a different breed from console gamers, and thats not a bad thing. I take pride in finding the best parts on NewEgg/TigerDirect and piecing together a machine that can beast any game out there. If a game is multi-platform, I can guarantee you the best looking experience will be on PC. Will it be on everyone's PC like it's on everyone's console? No. And thats something a lot of people are willing to live with. I played Far Cry 2 on 360, 1080p, yada yada, and it was nice. I got it for cheap on PC and it just looked so much smoother.
Plus, a huge part of my computing life is open world games. Shit like Football Manager, Civ4/5, the Sims, SimCity, MineCraft, etc that can't be replicated in any real way on console. Not to mention games like Left 4 Dead 2 where you can enjoy it on console, but the real enjoyment comes after when I get to play stuff like shot for shot remakes of Dawn of the Dead. Console gamers miss out on that enjoyment. A vibrant mod community is something that's always been a big selling point for me and what ties me to PC games.
Obviously, I enjoy console gaming and have all three systems. But if a game is multi-platform and I know the PC version got a modicum of love, I am buying there.
Plus, Steam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ANY console distribution system. Fuck Gamestop right in the face
PC Gamers are a different breed from console gamers, and thats not a bad thing. I take pride in finding the best parts on NewEgg/TigerDirect and piecing together a machine that can beast any game out there. If a game is multi-platform, I can guarantee you the best looking experience will be on PC. Will it be on everyone's PC like it's on everyone's console? No. And thats something a lot of people are willing to live with. I played Far Cry 2 on 360, 1080p, yada yada, and it was nice. I got it for cheap on PC and it just looked so much smoother.
Plus, a huge part of my computing life is open world games. Shit like Football Manager, Civ4/5, the Sims, SimCity, MineCraft, etc that can't be replicated in any real way on console. Not to mention games like Left 4 Dead 2 where you can enjoy it on console, but the real enjoyment comes after when I get to play stuff like shot for shot remakes of Dawn of the Dead. Console gamers miss out on that enjoyment. A vibrant mod community is something that's always been a big selling point for me and what ties me to PC games.
Obviously, I enjoy console gaming and have all three systems. But if a game is multi-platform and I know the PC version got a modicum of love, I am buying there.
Plus, Steam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ANY console distribution system. Fuck Gamestop right in the face
